Ruby: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Larry Ullman

Overview

This book is for those new to programming or that know other programming languages and would like to know Ruby. The book teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and starts with creating a basic program. Everything is covered such as control structures and variables, taking input, and creating output. Moving from the basic to more advanced topics, a solid understanding of Ruby is taught in logical progression. The book ends with an overview of the Web development framework, Ruby on Rails.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780321617415
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	01/28/2009
Series:	Visual QuickStart Guide
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	99998
File size:	13 MB
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Simple Scripts
Chapter 3: Simple Types
Chapter 4: Arrays, Ranges, and Hashes
Chapter 5: Control Structures
Chapter 6: Creating Methods
Chapter 7: Creating Classes
Chapter 8: Inheritance and More
Chapter 9: Modules and Includes
Chapter 10: Regular Expressions
Chapter 11: Debugging and Error Handling
Chapter 12: RubyGems
Chapter 13: Directories and Files
Chapter 14: Databases
Chapter 15: Networking
Chapter 16: Ruby on Rails
Chapter 17: Dynamic Programming
Index